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Bug 312157

Summary: [UX] Eclipse is not keyboard-interactive enough - request for internal command-line.
Product: [Eclipse Project] e4 Reporter: Pedro Rolo <pedrorolo>
Component: UIAssignee: Project Inbox <e4.ui-inbox>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Susan McCourt <susan>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: pwebster, remy.suen
Version: 1.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Whiteboard: stalebug

Description Pedro Rolo CLA 2010-05-08 09:41:11 EDT 
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Old text editors/ide's like emacs and vi provide internal command lines, which allow users to execute/explore/define commands and keyboard shortcuts.

In a user interface prespective this allows to bridge begginer users (the ones who use the mouse for everything) and "guru-users" (the ones who only use keyboard shortcuts). It is a pitty that modern Ide's like emacs have droped such a valuable feature.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Susan McCourt CLA 2010-05-08 18:06:23 EDT 
I don't see this happening in the context of 3.x, but I could see us exploring this in e4.
Comment 2 Pedro Rolo CLA 2010-05-09 09:42:24 EDT 
If implemented, plugins should be able to provide commands to this command line, of course.
Comment 3 Paul Webster CLA 2010-05-10 08:00:00 EDT 
In the meantime in 3.x there's QuickAssist (CTRL+3) that can execute commands (no composer support, however).

PW
Comment 4 Lars Vogel CLA 2019-09-04 03:13:18 EDT 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it and remove the stalebug whiteboard tag. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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